Sega has confirmed via the Sonic Stadium forums that their forthcoming Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed won’t feature voice chat. Nintendo has already confirmed that there will only be a couple of Wii U titles that will feature voice chat. These games include Assassin’s Creed 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Sega says that the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Sonic Racing will feature voice chat.
S0L, after today’s news about the limited Wii U voice chat, will you guys be supporting voice chat on that platform?
“We don’t support voice chat on WiiU for those reasons, one of the side effects of being a launch title basically. Does support it on PS3 and 360 though!”
Thanks to those that sent this in.
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Once again. Idc about voice chat. But what about something like Xbox lives party chat?
That is what I find useful.
I don’t want to use multiple things to communicate with another person.
When it could all be done from the console itself.
You dont need to ,use mii verse to send messages and make date sheesh
Didnt nintendo state messages would be monitored/filtered and it could take up to 4 hours to receive a message?
If so, miiverse is not the way to go
I think they meant in game. Like leaving messages for everyone to see.
Not private messages back and forth to other people.
But this is me assuming. Lol
No Nintendo clarified that if your messages were reported meaning your trash talking and being a dick Nintendo would have to monitor your messages from then on and then it would take 4 hours to send a messsage. It’s a punishment.
This doesn’t look too good for Wii U. Not the end of the world, though.
Let the damage control continue.
Remember back when the Xbox was suppose to have voice chat? yeah it was very limited at the launch of the console but over time was updated so writing Nintendo off that quickly is actually not far.
Sigh, you fanboys are hilarious. It’s 2012 and it should be standard.
You’re quite welcome to go and chew Sega out over this.
Why would I do that when I could get the PS3 version?
Because it’s Sega that have decided not to take advantage of the voice chat that the Wii U offers, despite the fact that the game is merely a port of a PS3/360 game, and those versions do offer it?
I honestly don’t care about voice chat, but it’s clear who is to blame on this one. Nintendo can’t do anything about third parties lazily not taking advantage of Wii U features.
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To bad!!
Looks like it was only due to time constraints that the Wii U version has no voice chat. That problem will disappear on future games. Leave luck to heaven.
How do you know?
He said it not having voice chat is one of the side effects of it being a launch title. It also seems to that it’s up to the developer of the game itself whether they want to use the voice chat functionality of the Wii U.
The ability is there, the devs just have to make use of it.
Wich decrease the development cost a bit
I would rather see the WiiU version delayed but thats not happening this late :( Kind of sucks tho guess i will have to get the 360 version no voice chat in a racing game sucks better off playing single player if we can’t realtime communicate with opponents.
The xbox 360 and the original xbox had voice chat but during the launches of both consoles the ability to voice chat was fully utilized in the games so it wasn’t 100% completed yet but over time games started to actually uses the voice chat feature and it soon got an update.
Why would you need voice chat for a game like this?
In fact, the only game i can think of where voice chat is really neccessary, is in Battlefield, or PC games, but even then, you dont NEED in.
Hey, it’s pretty fun talking to your friends on Skype when playing Mario Kart.
Yeah, if you’re talking to your friends, but otherwise, it’s pointless.
If i wanted to talk trash to some “hardcore gamer” moron, id just go on here.
Nintendo fanboys aren’t hardcore gamers.
Neither are Nintendo haters.
Both are annoying as fuck.
So true.
A hardcore gamer isn’t determined by the game they play but by how much time they invest in games period. Just because they’re a nintendo gamer doesn’t mean that they aren’t hardcore gamers.
My granny is hardcore as fuck then XD she spends hours on cut the rope XD hours upon hours!
That’s not the point. It should be an option.
It’s still pointless. This game isnt going to last online anyway, especially when COD and Assassins Creed are coming out, which both use voice chat.
I still find people online with the first game all the time. I don’t see why this one shouldn’t last.
Well by last, i mean its only going to have a small online presence
why would you want voice chat in a racing game? the only time i ever even use voice chat is when im chatting with friends. im not really interested in talking to people i dont know while playing video games lol
I don’t care personally but it would be annoying for some people.
Okay. So, what you’re telling me is that you can’t play racing games with friends?
uhh…no? i dont really play racing games, but still why would you want voice chat in a racing game? i dint get how you connected “why would you want voice chat in a racing game” and “i usually only chat with my friends” with ” i dont play racing games with friends.” you make no fucking sense brudda
My words made a lot of sense if you have reading comprehension.
These were your words:
“why would you want voice chat in a racing game? the only time i ever even use voice chat is when im chatting with friends. im not really interested in talking to people i dont know while playing video games lol”
Now you figure it out.
yeah, there is no connection between me not understanding the point/importance of having voice chat in racing games, and me only voice chatting with friends. it still makes no sense how you came to that conclusion. just copying and pasting what i said doesnt prove anything.
Alright, man.
Would you please stop trying to act like things like this do not affect anyone ? You do this on every fucking single article that says something negative about the WiiU. Or Nintendo in general.
Because they do affect people and because they do matter. This is a huge disadvantage compared to the versions of the game on other consoles. Just because you do not make use of things like this it doesn’t mean the rest of the world does not neither.
Basically, voice-chat is useful in ANY online-multiplayer game. Stop fooling yourself.
You need to wake the fuck up.
Thats pretty lame. I wonder why?
Meh doesn’t matter to me, besides 3-4 games I mainly play online on pc do i use my headset/mic, the rest of the time I listen to music. And if those 3-4 games do come to WiiU (one I know 100% won’t) then I might be a bit upset with Nintendo’s way of online chat. But until then, this feature isn’t in my percentage of why I’m buying a WiiU.
f*** u Sega :) …
how complicated is it, to add an voice chat!?!
But I don’t understand, too …why Nintendo don’t add the possibility of a crossover game chat in the system.
they could fix it with dlc …but it doesn’t seem to be planned -.-
voice chat is kind of pointless since people misuse the ability. I only use Skype so my friends and I don’t have to suffer the verbal diarrhea that gets sprayed around in games.
Mute and ignore buttons are your friends.
To be honest, I wouldn’t be buying a Wii U for it’s online performance and features. I will admit Miiverse looks interesting though.
Not a real problem, this will get fixed up in future games. But this gives the Aelous’s, Ness’s and Zigfried von Schroder’s another opportunity to go “HAHAHAHAHA!!! WII U SUX!!!”
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You prefer having cross chat but to pay for online on xbox 360? Ps3 is free but it laggs and is not so stable,i bet nintendo have to prioritise betwen online stability or voice chat cross console
The online for the majority of the PS3’s first-party games are pretty good. I do agree though, many third-party networks aren’t that great.
I never understood the whole “ps3 has shit online” thing, ive never had a problem with it
I did not say shit i say unstable which happens on all console but more on ps3 especialy if not on mainland
Maybe its just your shitty internet.
15 meg always on cable and still laggs
Poor Nintendo’s fans almost everyday bad news WII U version of Assassin’s Creed 3 missing some graphic futures bad news 1 WII U version of Batman Arkham City look worse than PS3/360 version bad news 2 WII U version of Madden NFL 13 missing destruction engine bad new 3 Black Ops 2 not gonna run on 1080p resolution bad new 4 WII U not have voice chat bad news 5 Fifa 13 version of WII U missing some game modes bad news 6 maybe there’s more bad news.
This is why Nintendo should have come forward with their stance on voice chat (and online in general) much earlier. Then more titles might have implemented it.
Nintendo is PISSING ME OFF now.. I still like Nintendo, its just this is the stupidest thing ever. Until theres a BETTER explanation for this i’m gonna be angry at Nintendo.
Read the source… Time constraints… Sigh… Better not happen later.
Um this is segas decition, not nintendos.
Does the 360 had voice chat at launch?
Claps……. Good job nintendo….. By now every new console should at least have a party chat type system…=.=……
But of course nintendo dont….
Then go buy a ps3 and use the party chat cross game ………. o no it dosnt have
You’re sure its not just missing game chat folks? which is cool with me I don’t want to hear the random retards talking and banging their helmets together. However, if the system is missing the option for crossover/party/private chat that is a borderline deal breaker right there, you must be able to talk with your friends while you play otherwise whats the point of having friends online. Ive been waiting patiently for this thing to come out like everyone else, I pre-ordered the 2nd day it was available for pre-order and they are just telling us now that there is no private party chat no matter which game you are playing? If someone has a link confirming no private chat from Nintendo please post it, I need to see this for myself.
sigh… damn developers would blame it on the game being a launch title. IF YOU WANT TO INCORPORATE EVERY GOOD IDEA YOU INTENDED LIKE VOICE CHAT DON’T MAKE IT A LAUNCH TITLE. This is why games should be completed in development before the developers/publishers give the release date. This ain’t Ninten’s fault on this.
Correction. It’s partially Ninten’s fault.
Correction… It’s not Ninten’s fault, the developers Lol
Nintendo just can’t get their online right. I seriously hope that Wii U loses all core 3rd party support when ps4 and 720 come out. I.hope both those consoles outsale Wii U a mile .
What limited voice chat? It’s the same as what we have now for in-game chat and it’s better for miiverse chat.
TERRBLE.
A racing game without voice chat? In fucking 2012? Launch title or not: Microsoft had been doing voice chat since 2004 with the original XBOX! What the fuck is Nintendo’s problem?
So it’s due to time constraints, bummer. I wasn’t planning on picking up the game anyways but this does suck for those who wanted the Wii-U version. Oh well, seeing as the 360 lacked certain features at launch and were later added, I would hope these things will be fixed via patches. Nintendo fixed Skyward Sword through the Wii’s crappy online infrastructure so there won’t be an excuse not to for the Wii-U.
I love all the comments blaming Nintendo for this.It was entirely Sega’s fault for not including voice chat in this game,due to them wanting this out on the Wii U’s launch.And as super said,they could (and hopefully will) patch this later.
bull shit
I just hope party chat is available.